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M. SOHOLL.

' No.305852. Patentedeptu30,1884.

'UNITED STATES PATENT FFICEQ MICHAEL SOHOLL, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

ORNAMENTAI.

CHIMNEY-CAP.

SPECIPICA'IION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 305,852, dated September SO, 1884.

Application filed March 7, 1884. (N0 model.)

T0 all whom iz5 1nwy concern;

Be ib known that I, MICHAEL SOHOLL, a eit-izen 0f t1ie United States, residing in the city anti county of San Francisco 2md Statue of Oalifornia, have invented a new and useful- Improvement in Chimney-Cups and Ornamente Therefor, 0f which the following is a specification.

The objeet ()f my invenion is 130 provide a mezms whereby ehe drafb is greatly increased in those chimneys having ehimney-eaps; am). my invention has a more immediute referenee t-0 the chinmey-cap for which Letters Patent cf ehe United Stabes were granted t0 me 011 February 12, 1884, N0. 293,526. In this invention the cap was deseribed as being made of a metallic blank having fonr poinbs 01 arme formed with cnrved sides, und when in position partiallyoval openings were formed around ehe cap; hence by covering 0r partially c0v ering these openings With a metallic wing 0x pI-ate my objeet is accomplished In my present invention I also provide a means f01' ornamenting the crodvn or top 0f my ohimney-eap.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a 1 part; 0f t=his specification, Figure 1 is a fronb elevation 0f my-improved chimneyeap. Fig. 2 is a. verbieal seebion of 0ne of the coverings f0r the drafC-Open'ings. Fig. 3 is an'elevation 0r fr0nb view of one 0f seid coverings'. Fig. 4 is a vertical secoion of one 0f the ornamental top pieces, and Fig. 5 is a plan er top view of.

the eomplelze ehimney-cap.

Similar letters 0f ret'erenee are used to indicate Iike parts throughoub the several figures.

The central 01' mein porhion ot' my improved chimney-cap consists 0f a met allic blank having f0ur arme; er points, A A, es fully shown in my former patentabove referred to, the sies 0f seid arms er points being f0rmed wich curvatures B B. These arme or points are bent down, as shown, and are eonneeted in any suitable manner 150 a band, C, seeured to the chimney pot er stack. In order 110 elose er partially elose the semi-0Val openings D D, that are thus formed between the downwardlyben arms A A, themetallic wings 0r eovers E E are employed. each have the upper end cut rounding a-x1d the lower end cut sbraight, as shown in Fig. 3, and each wing is bent, as shown in Fig. 2, so as t0 provide for draft-openings ab eaeh side when Lhe wings are seenred in positionowr the Openings D D, as shownin Figs. 1 and 'Ihe bop portions 0f these wings 01 plates eure seeured to the crown 0f the ehimney-cap proper, and the lower ends are secured t o the band C, es

Shown.

'lhe ornamenta-l parb 01' my impr0ved chiruney-eap consists 0f meballic stri ps F F, Fig. 4, hzwing regular oufiwardly-curved arme G, the upper endsof which arebent inward and made eoneavo-eon vex, as shown ab H, while ohe extreme upper ends 0f the ornamental starips are clipped 0[ pointed and conneoted '00 eaeh obher in any suitable manner. The lower ends 0t' the strips F F are fastened t0 the crown ot' hhe ehimney-capbetween the points 0f abtaehmenb 0f the wings E E, 01, in other Wo'rds, t1he surips F F are arranged in line with and above tl1e oap, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5.

Having thus deseribed my invention, what I claim as new, anti esire to seeure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a ehimney-cap, the combinat-ion, with a cappiece having semi-oval openings, of i;he metallie wings 01 plates E E, adapted 130 partially eover seid openings and provirle drafb holes 0n euch side, snbstantially asdescribed.

These wings 01' eovers.

downwardly-bent arme A A 0f nhe ehimney 2. An ornamental chimney-cap consisting of 

